Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!cae780!leadsv!laic!darin
From: darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Holy Wars
Message-ID: <187@laic.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 22:59:28 GMT
References: <5638@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Lockheed AI Center, Menlo Park
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In article <5638@swan.ulowell.edu>, arosen@eagle.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) writes:
> powerful" is pretty moot, since tcsh (much more powerful than DCL or C-shell)
> is PD, and (PD) GNU's 'M-x shell' both make better CLIs.  Oh yeah, M-x shell
> doesn't work in GNU under VMS.  Sorry.

Hmmn, tcsh may be PD, but you need source to csh to compile it.  If you
have a different version that doesn't require or include proprietary code,
then send me a copy.

Where is GNU Emacs shell described?  (can I run vi under it :-)

> And, monocase is intolerable.  So is forcing every file name to have at
> least one "." in it.  So is needing to set up a symbol to pass command line
> parameters to a C program.  So is limiting command history to 20.

Agreed

> So is
> not having any games :-)

What! Your user's haven't written any yet :-)

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